HN user
yeah… but nope.
yes, mastodon.social is big but there is more plurality. There is about 250k users on mastodon.social while whole fediverse is about 10 milion
On the other hand while tere is roughly 35 milion bluesky users there is only ~50k on non-blusky PDSes (https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pdses) so there's that…
Yet another happy user of Handy - one of the best applications out there, kudos! <3
Right… and still 99,99% of everything is held by bsky PDS and goes through their rely and appview… so much for "distributed federation"
That's true. Plus how the media/narrative works. EU is a very convenient scapegote for <everything bad happening in the country>. People are unaware how things works quite often and national politicians are "trigger happy" to blame everything on the EU…
The rest of Europe doesn't have presidential system.
Most of the Europeans know who the President of EC (so basically president in France or PM i other countries) is -- everyone hates beloved UvdL ;)
The same goes for comissioners - they mimic same roles as your government has but level up. Some positions may be more prominent (and names known), some less.
Then if you go level _DOWN_ to local authorities (regional, municipal) then people would most likely be clueless who-is-who-and-do-what.
Basically we live in dumbed-down world where people are aware of basically the only-single-strongest-figure (Presindent, PM) because… idiocracy…
[citation needed] ;)
Same could be said for <some level of government>. Quite often people are just generally clueless how things are administered/goverened ;)
It's less about India and more about Usanai where urban sprawl is all the rage which makes wiring it impossible… and capitalist-driven-development doesn't help.
It's mindbogling how ignorant people are when it comes to how the EU is structured and how it works ;(
You are mixing it with Council ;)
Yeah, EU setup is absurdly convoluted but it's simply a result of the consensus that tires to balance difference sources of power (the people and the countries).
Ideally the whole EU population should just vote for MEPs in EU parliment, which the would form the government. But that would completely sidestep member states government which they won't ever agree to. And any even mention of reforminng the EU towards that is immediatelly shoot down because nationalists are screetching about soverignty (which at the same time complain that the EU is undemocratic)
So we have the setup with European Council (heads of governments) setting the agenda, Comission (presiden of which is selected by council and approved by parliment) that makes that into law and then Parliment and EU Council (not European council!) votes for it.
A coupld of infographics how that works:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20240524STO...
https://static.cfr.org/sites/default/files/image/2022/03/-la...
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022...
One brilliant feature of the Costco experience is, paradoxically, the constraint: as opposed to Amazon, with its near infinite assortment, or even Walmart, which has approximately 130,000 SKUs (stock keeping units, or distinct items) in the average Supercenter, any given Costco will only hold 4,000 SKUs to choose from.
I live in Spain now and over here we have Mercadona as a "low cost market" and they do basically the same thing - limited selection of mostly in-house brands.
At first I was stlightly annoyed by it but over time it turned out that it's kinda preferred way -- indeed I waste less time hunting for The Brand and just The Item I need. And most of the time quality is on pair (or better) while costing less…
Hmm… my memory may not be the best but apart from WinAmp almost every other app kinda stuck to the OS? ;o
I'm still on one of those forums and find it very… comforting. The discussions and topics are (absurdly) in-depth. Poeple are actually interested in what they are commenting on and it's not too "crowdy" so you somewhat get to know more or less who is who :)
I like the customization of the OS but I hate when the app developers are feeling creative and can't fit into (my OS of choice) Look&Feel :/
Hard disagree. For me quircles make finding the desired app way more difficult…
What is the most annoyig is that the effin' rest of the world had to follow and embrace this stupid trend :/
Luckily on Android and Linux I can select custom icon sets that can have shapes…
From more devops-ish perspective: I would love for PostgreSQL to finally have in-place upgrade between (successive) major versions.
Most distros can handle the annoying quirk of having older+newer version to run `pg_upgrade` but when using docker it's pure PITA to upgrade to newer (major) version :/
I lost train of thought :D
in the end I went with the surgery and now I'm in recovery. Sadly 4-5 years of trying lots of PT/streaching/pull-ups/push-ups/whatnot didn't help and only made things worse :(
I had issues with my shoulder for years. Tried PT as well as pull/push-ups but doing that made the pain worse (if I wasn't doing any exercises involving the shoulder it was "fine")…
Nah. But for the supposed "privacy" you swap one "dumb pipe" for another pipe, which you have no clue about its operations beyond "trust me bro". Of course they may behave with good intentions and actually keep their promises but that's a rather huge IF.
And then quite often people will still use their regular tracking-browser to access tracking-websites xD
EU is (trying at least) go in that direction with Zero Knowledge Proof:
https://ageverification.dev/Technical%20Specification/archit...
I got first Jolla Phone ages ago, wanted to love it but in the end I disliked it bebause of gesture-oriented UI (it simply didn't 'click' for me and was annoying to use in the long run).
Right now I'm more excited about PostmarketOS which seems to be more vanilla Linux with more approachable UI…
They don't harvest all personal data becase they don't give a duck like the Usanian counterparts /s
I kinda wish NemoMobile would be default UI… current SailfishUI with force gestures is (for me) highly annoying…
I'm still amused that so many people got brainwashed into thinking that VPNs give privacy :D
No, even if you are being paid, it's a thankless, painful job to deal with demanding, entitled free users.
So… aren't they providing (paid) support? same thing…
Absurd comparison.
Huge problem (for me) with SaifishOS is… annoying UI. I know that a lot of people swear by swipe navigation but it's just darn inconvenient and imprecise (or rather - require a lot of precission to select desired option)… I tried to get used to it for a long time and I simply couldn't. Having to pay effin lot of attention each time I tried to do anything with the phone was simply to much…
Anectodal: just the other day I put Fedora KDE 43 on "new" (well, second-hand after lease) computer for my father as the old one was on it's last legs and... it works just fine.
The machine came with Windows 10 by default and what he needed was Firefox and FreeCell, and FreeCell on Windows10 was atrocious.
He likes it a lot and the only thing was that I had to put same wallpaper as he had on Windows7 and icons in the same places.
The "linux is to complicated" argument just doesn't hold true anymore! It's nice and easy, including the installation (even I was surprised)
/me waiting for all complaining about lack of docker image to step up and start providing those images ]:->
No, it's called "diversification". Applies both to stock/currency/investments as well as enything else :P
Uhm... E(U)ropean sovereigny (and in general spreading the hosting as much as possbile) needed ASAP…